§ 11.5-29. Expenditure of public funds.

(a)

The county administrator or his designee may expend funds, pursuant to chapters 125 and 129, Florida Statutes, which are budgeted for business and industrial promotion purposes in furtherance of this article.

(b)

In addition, the county office of business development is authorized to expend funds for the following:

(1)

To publicize, advertise and promote Hernando County;

(2)

To make known the advantages, facilities, resources, products, attractions, attributes, employer opportunities, and business and development incentives, of the county;

(3)

To create a favorable climate of opinion concerning industrial and business development in the county;

(4)

To cooperate with other agencies, public and private, including the State of Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation and Enterprise Florida, Inc., to accomplish these purposes;

(5)

To provide meals, hospitality and entertainment of persons in the interest of promoting industrial or business development or engendering goodwill toward new industrial or business development;

(6)

To further the operations and activities of the office of business development;

(7)

To encourage and facilitate the creation of new jobs within the county which pay equal to or greater than the average annual wage for the county;

(8)

To attract qualified targeted industries and targeted industries to locate to, relocate in, or expand within the county; and for the county, through office of business development, to participate with the State of Florida Office of Tourism, Trade and Economic Development (OTTED) and Enterprise Florida, Inc. in the local match requirements offered to qualified targeted industries regarding the creation of new jobs;

(9)

To further the "economic element" of the county's comprehensive plan pursuant to chapter 163, part II, Florida Statutes;

(10)

To identify and define specific or targeted areas within the county where new industrial and business development should be promoted or where county-based incentives are provided.

(Ord. No. 2008-21, § 1, 10-21-08)